West Ham United traces its roots to Thames Ironworks FC, an amateur side in Victorian London's industrial east end. It has bobbled between the two top divisions of English football since, with a golden age in the fop flight between 1961 and 1974 under manager Ron Greenwood with a team built around World Cup winners Moore, Hurst and Peters, but is the sole club on our list never to have won its domestic league. Now owned by Icelandic businessman Björgólfur Gupmundsson.

Team Value 1$195 mil(€144 mil / £97 mil)
(2007: #23)

Dean Ashton

Owner/Major Shareholder:
Eggert Magnusson

Chief Executive:
Scott Duxbury (Deputy CEO)

Head Coach:
Alan Curbishley

Club President:
Björgólfur Gupmundsson

European Trophies:
1 European Cup Winners Cup: 1964-65

Domestic Championships:
None

Domestic Cups:
3 F.A. Cups (1964, 1975, 1980)

Iconic Star:
Dean Ashton

Legend of the Past:
Bobby Moore skippered Ron Greenwood's team that won West Ham its first trophies and England when it won the 1966 World Cup. He set records for most appearances for club and country, and a still unsurpassed record 90 games as England captain. A composed central defender, his world-class positional play and reading of the game more than made up for lack of pace and inches. In 2004, he was nominated by the F.A. as the best English player of the previous 50 years.